President Bashar Assad says that airstrike shows what he alleged was Israel’s ‘visceral antipathy towards peace’

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US military spokesman credits decline in violence to surge of American troops in Iraq, but he says level of violence still too high

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Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Fatah official, says there are 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and they all should go free

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Number of Arab visitors has been rising sharply since 2002, as many abandon destinations such as the United States, where they have complained of hostility and are wary of tighter US visa restrictions

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I went to the wedding of a childhood friend the other day, and in reminiscing about the old days, it struck us how different things were back then. For example:
1) When I was six or seven years old, I would walk to school every day with Alice, a neighbor girl who was only a year [...]

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Background: The “Elian Gonzalez II” case in Miami is a battle over a 4-year-old Cuban immigrant girl which pits her Cuban father, Rafael Izquierdo, against wealthy Cuban-American foster parents Joe Cubas, a well-known sports agent, and his wife Maria. Just as Elian’s father Juan Gonzalez faced numerous unfair hurdles to get his son back, Izquierdo [...]

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A Welsh woman has died in a Thai hospital from injuries sustained in the September 16 crash of One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 at Phuket International Airport, bringing the death toll to 90.
Bethan Jones, 22, from Porth, had been one of 42 original survivors in the crash, which her boyfriend, Alex Collins, 22, did not survive. [...]

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Evan Wolfson, the founder of the modern gay marriage movement, tells the waiter he would like an iced decaf and “the usual.” Wolfson, one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World, is a man who unflinchingly knows what he wants and stays his course, whether it be in his choice of restaurant or [...]

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Thomas Friedman thinks you are “stupid” if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks “9/11 is over” and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly meaningless [...]

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World Heart Federation says leading healthy, active lifestyle can largely prevent people from getting these diseases

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United States women football team wins over Norway with a score of 4-1

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United States women football team wins over Norwey with a score of 4-1

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Background: Some, including former Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy, have criticized the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (IMBRA) for being anti-male.
According to McElroy, “the IMBRA requires American men who wish to correspond with foreign women through private for-profit matchmaking agencies to first provide those businesses with their police records and other personal [...]

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This past week the government rammed through long awaited legislation that will require companies to sell 51 per cent of their equity to black Zimbabweans nominated by the regime. The companies are required to fund this exercise themselves through a levy that is to be introduced by the State and which will be applied on [...]

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Background: Mary Winkler–who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes–walked away a free woman last month after serving a farcically brief “sentence” for her crimes. She is currently in a custody battle with Matthew Winkler’s parents, who have [...]

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Dear Family and Friends,
Standing outside over yet another smoky fire late one afternoon this week, a
Go-Away bird chastised me from a nearby tree. I’m sure this Grey Lourie is as
fed up of me intruding into its territory as I am of being there - trying to
get a hot meal for supper. For five of [...]

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All good things come to an end, and some bad ones, or at least go into hibernation for a bit. Fred on Everything is going to take a month off and ponder, and perhaps come back refreshed. Or perhaps not. [...]

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When there’s domestic violence and it’s committed by a woman, it’s not domestic violence. Here a woman allegedly hit her husband with her car, drove a 1/2 mile with him on the roof, fractured his leg, and drove off–and she says she’s the victim. She is being charged with some appropriate crimes–at least until her [...]

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Championship game will feature two contrasting styles of play

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